Holder for jars



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OLIVER A. BURNES, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

HOLDER FOR JARS, CANS, etc.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 575,694, dated January26, 1897.

Application filed May 4, 1896. Serial No. 590,127. (No modeLl To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER A. BURNEs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holdersfor Jars,

Cans, &c.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient devicefor holding and handling jars, cans, &c.

To this end my invention consists of a removable handle or holder whichis made adjustable, so that it may be applied to jars, &c., of varioussizes.

My invention also comprises certain novel details of constructionhereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The preferred form of myinvention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein, like letters referring to like parts throughout theseveral views-- Figure l is a plan view showing my im-- proved handle orholder applied in working position on a jar or can, said jar or canbeing indicated in diagram and some parts of the holder being brokenaway. Fig. 2 is an end View of the handle or holder shown in Fig. 1,looking at the head of the same; and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectiontaken on the line X X of Fig. 1, looking from the head end of theholder.

a. indicates a jar or can in diagram.

Referring to the parts of the holder, Z) indicates a hollow cylindricalhandpiece provided at its innermost end with a flange portion I).

0 indicates a clamping-head which is provided with a screw-threaded stemor rod portion 0', the threads of which work in suitable internalthreads cut in the interior of the flanged portion 1) of the handpiece1). As shown, the clamping-head is formed on an arc of a circle and isprovided with a facing 0 of leather or other pliable material. Theclamping-head c is provided at each end with a perforation c and thefacing a is provided at its ends with perforations 0 which coinferentsizes and forms.

cide or register one with each of said perforations 0 f indicates adraw-plate which is loosely swiveled at its central portion on theexterior of the handpiece 2) and is held from movement in the directionof the clamping-head c by means of the collar Z).

g indicates a clamping-loop formed by a strand of pliable wire, the endsof which work through the coincident perforations 0 0 respectively, ofthe clamping-head c and facing c and are secured one to the oppositeends of the draw-plate f, as shown at g.

The device is placed in working position by applying the outer loopportion of the clamping-wire 9 around the can or jar which is to beheld, and the clamping-head c is forced outward against said can or jarsimply by turning the handpiece 6. Obviously as the clamping-head c isthus forced outward against the can or jar the clamping-wire 9 will bedrawn through the perforations 0 c and the outer loop portion of saidwire will be contracted and tightly drawn against the periphery orexterior of the Vessel to which it is applied.

By extending the clamping-head c a greater or less distance from thehandpiece 1) the loop formed by the wire 9 may be varied, so as to adaptthe device, within certain limits, of course, to vessels and otherarticles of dif- This removable handle or holder is adapted for manyuses, of which I shall attempt to name only a few.

The device may be applied to ordinary glass fruit-jars. When so applied,these jars, together with the handle, may be used as a dipper. Again,when thus' applied the jar may be firmly held, so that the top thereofmay be tightly screwed thereon. When the device is applied, for example,to an ordinary fruit-can, the can may be securely held from rotary andother movement while the top of the same is being removed by acan-opener.

It will be understood, of course, that the purpose of the leather facingc of the clamping-head c is to prevent the defacing of the vessel towhich the device is applied, and also to give greater slipping frictionto said clamping-head.

It will also be understood that various alterations in the details ofconstruction of the device above described may be made without departingfrom the spirit of my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

1. The combination with a handpiece, of a draw plate or piece swiveledon said handpieee, a Wire loop the ends of which are secured to saiddraw-plate, and a clampinghead provided with perforations through whichthe end portions of said wire loop Work, and having a fixed stem whichWorks with screw-threaded engagement into said handpiece, substantiallyas described.

2. The combination with the handpiece Z) E. F. ELnoRE, F. D. MEROHANT.

